LOS ANGELES — “We struck four times. Most important for me is that health care co-pays were held down,” Rosa Merino, a housekeeper at the Indigo hotel downtown here, told the Militant. She was part of a meeting of 150…
CORNWALL, Ontario — Over 9,000 workers at the Liquor Control Board of Ontario stores went on strike July 5, the first strike in their history. The members of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union had voted 97% to strike. Rallies…
On July 31 members of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA at Endeavor Air will picket at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport. They’re demanding wages equal to those paid at Delta Air Lines, Endeavor’s parent company. While wearing the same uniforms…
Washington, London and other “democratic” imperialist governments refused to offer Jews facing the Nazi Holocaust a refuge before, during and after World War II. The Nazis slaughtered 6 million Jews. With nowhere else to go, thousands of Jews interned in…
The final results of the French elections were an “unexpected blow” to the “far right,” the Washington Post claimed July 7, declaring the result “one of the greatest political upsets in recent French history.” Like much of the capitalist media,…
Teamster Rebellion by Farrell Dobbs is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July. It is the story of the Teamsters’ organizing drive in Minneapolis where rank-and-file workers won hard-fought strikes in 1934, defeating combined strikebreaking efforts by the…
In one of the largest barrages yet, Hezbollah launched 200 rockets and mortars and more than 20 drones from Lebanon into northern Israel July 4, killing one Israeli soldier in the Golan Heights and setting fires as far away as…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Socialist Workers Party leaders John Benson and Susan LaMont, above, filed to put the party’s presidential ticket — Rachele Fruit for president and Dennis Richter for vice president — on the ballot July 8. They turned in…
On July 2 the U.S. federal Parole Commission once again denied Leonard Peltier’s request for parole. The hearing, the first in over a decade, took place June 10. Peltier, a leader of the American Indian Movement, has been in federal…
FORT WORTH, Texas — The family of Anthony Johnson Jr. held a press conference July 2 announcing they had won an important victory with the June 25 indictment of two Tarrant County jailers for the murder of their son. Johnson,…
